Performance Evaluation For Flexural Strength of M30 Design

Mix Concrete with Partial Replacement of Conventional

Ingredients


Shardul Tagalpallewar* , S.D.Charkha**
* (Student PGP ACM NICMAR, Balewadi, PUNE (MS) 411045,
Email: shardul.tagalpallewar@gmail.com )
**( Associate Professor, Department of civil Engineering, B.N.College of Engineering PUSAD (M.S) 445215

Email: sd_charkha@rediffmail.com )



ABSTRACT
A comprehensive effort is made in
this work to partially replace the natural
river sand by stone quarry dust and
cement by fly ash as an alternative in
combination with admixture, for concrete
ingredients which shall lead to global
sustainable development and lowest
possible environmental impact and will
also reduce cost of construction as well.
In the present work, keeping the
coarse aggregate same as that of
conventional one, other ingredients such
as fine aggregate and binding material i.e.
cement are partially replaced. Sand is
(fine aggregate) replaced 30% by stone
quarry dust throughout the work and the
replacement of cement is varied from 0%
to 20% with an increment of 05%.
Proportion selected for concrete
ingredients is 1:1.2:1.8 with water-cement
ratio 0.45.
Initially the work is carried out
without using super plasticizer. But with
the view to increase workability, super
plasticizer is also used concrete is studied
for flexural strength. Prisms were cast for
7 days, 14 days and 28 days to determine
flexure strength of concrete.
The results for all the tests were
found to be much satisfactory, which
shows that the replacement of PPC with fly
ash up to 30% using stone quarry dust
partially as fine aggregate is suitable.


Graphs are plotted for mechanical
properties with respect to percentage
variation in ingredients.
Key words- M30, PPC, Stone Dust, sand, fly
as etc.

1. INTRODUCTION

Global warming and environment destruction
have become manifest problem in recent years,
heighten concern about global environmental issue,
and a change over from the mass production, mass
consumption, mass waste society of the past to a
zero-emission society is now viewed as important.
Preventing the exhaustion of natural resources and
enhancing the usage of waste materials have
become a significant problem of the modern world.
Million tonnes of waste materials come into
existence as a result of industrialisation and a lot of
study has been carried out concerning the
protection of natural resources, prevention of
environmental pollution and contribution the
economy by using these waste materials. The world
needs environmentally friendly construction
material. Concrete is basically made of aggregate,
glued by a cement paste which is made cement and
water. Each one of the primary ingredients of
concrete to some extent has an environmental
impact and give rises to different sustainability
issues. The current concrete practice is
unsustainable because, not only it consumes
enormous quantities of natural resources like stones
sand and drinking water, but also one billion tonne
a year of cement , which is not an environment
friendly thing. The production of cement involves
huge consumption of energy and emission of large
quantities of carbon dioxide.



Disposal of fly ash has become great
problem. It is aggravating day by day. Its disposal
occupies nearly 50000 acres of precious land
during their life span. Fly ash has characteristics to
get heated very fast and cooling down as well. This
results in drastic changes in the environment.
Disposal and utilisation of fly ash has become
challenge all over the world and it is need of an
hour to make aware the Technical and Non-
technical section of the society about utilisation of
fly ash.

2. MATERIALS AND PROPERTIES
CEMENT: The declared percentage of fly ash in
the given PPC is 26.0 % (declared)

Table1: CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF FLY
ASH





SAND
TABLE 2: PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF
SAND
Sr. No. Property Average
1 Specific Gravity 2.66
2 Fineness Modulus 3.1
3 Water Absorption 0.5%
4 Surface Texture Smooth
5 Particle Shape Rounded





COARSEAGGREGATE
TABLE 3: PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF
COARSE AGGREGATE
Chemical Constituents Values Units
Silica 40.18 %
Calcium oxide 1.16 %
Titanium oxide 0.04 %
Potassium oxide 0.18 %
Magnesium oxide 0.14 %
Phosphorous Pent oxide 0.19 %
Sulphur trioxide 0.04 %
sodium oxide 0.05 %
Aluminum as Al 1.42 %
Manganese Oxide 0.02 %
Chlorides as Cl 194 mg/kg
Loss on Ignition 0.22 %
Sr.
No.
Property Average
1 Specific Gravity 2.85
2 Fineness Modulus 7.67
3 Water Absorption 0.60%
4 Particle shape Angular
5 Crushing value 17.40
6 Impact Value 12.50



3. EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM
The Experimental Program was carried
out in four stages:
Stage 01 :- Determination of physical
properties of ingredients.

Stage 02 :- Mix Design for M30
Concrete as per Indian
standard recommended
method of concrete mix
design (IS 10262 - 1982)

Stage 03 :- Experimental work
conducted on concrete by
using conventional
ingredients only.

Stage 04 : Experimental work
conducted on concrete by
replacing cement with fly
ash and sand with stone
quarry dust with 0.5 %
super plasticizer.

Experimental work conducted on concrete
by using conventional ingredients
Preparation of Specimens
Constant parameters
Mix proportion of concrete selected -
1:1.2:1.8
Type of cement: PPC
Type of aggregate
i) Sand < 4.75mm
ii) Coarse Aggregates < 25 mm
Period of curing - 7, 14, 28 days
Water cement ratio 0.45



4. Experimental work conducted on
concrete by replacing cement with fly
ash and sand with stone quarry dust
with 0.5 % super plasticizer.
Preparation of Specimens
Constant parameters
Mix proportion of concrete selected -
1:1.2:1.8
Type of cement: PPC
Type of aggregate
i) Sand < 4.75mm
ii) Stone Quarry Dust 150 - 4.75 mm
iii) Coarse Aggregates for flexural test <
20mm Period of curing: 7, 14, 28 days
Super plasticizer - 0.5 %.
Water cement ratio - 0.45
Variable Parameters
Cement replaced by fly ash from 0% to
20% at the increment of 5%.
Test
For each test two prism of dimension 500
mm x 100 mm x 100 mm size were cast
and tested to determine flexural strength.

TABLE 4 : DETAILS OF MIX
DESIGNATIONS


Mix
Designation
Binding
materials
Fine aggregate
Coarse
aggregate
Admixture
Cement
Fly
ash
Sand
Stone
quarry
dust
Super
Plasticizer
F 05 95% 5% 70% 30% 100% 0.5%
F 10 90% 10% 70% 30% 100% 0.5%
F 15 85% 15% 70% 30% 100% 0.5%
F 20 80% 20% 70% 30% 100% 0.5%
TABLE 5 : COMPACTION FACTOR TEST
RESULTS
Sr.
No.
Mix Designation Compaction Factor
1 F 05 0.76
2 F 10 0.73
3 F 15 0.70

4 F 20 0.67


Fig.1 : Compaction factor test
TABLE 10: EFFECT OF FLY ASH ON FLEXURAL
STRENGTH OF CONCRETE(Mpa)
Mix
Designation
7 Day 14
Day
28
Day
F 05 2.22 4.08 6.68
F 10 1.95 4.32 5.86
F 15 1.81 3.90 5.43
F 20 1.66 3.80 4.98




Fig.2: Variation in flexural strength of concrete

5. DISCUSSION
Specific gravity of stone quarry dust is higher
than sand.
Water absorption of stone quarry dust is higher
than that of sand.
Rough texture and angular shape of stone
quarry dust the concrete makes less workable.
Due to addition of fly ash workability of
concrete is reduced to very low, hence there is
need of super plasticizer.
flexural strength of concrete goes on
decreasing with the increase in percentage of
added fly ash.


6. CONCLUSION
From the experimental investigation it can be
concluded that
Concrete mix M30 (Design Mix 1:1.2:1.8)
gives satisfactory mechanical properties like
Flexural strength up to 10 % replacement of
cement by fly ash and 30 % replacement of
sand by stone quarry dust with 0.5 % super
plasticizer.
Concrete mix with above ingredients can be
called as green concrete which should be
promoted for its use which indirectly helps to
save environment and economy.



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